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Many return empty-handed as government begins rice OMS for poor
Emran Hossain | Updated at 01:28am on April 06, 2020
Scores of people living in slums at Mohakhali and Mirpur in Dhaka returned empty handed after hours of wait as the government began selling specially...
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Theft of rice meant for poor raises concern
Tapos Kanti Das | Updated at 01:15am on April 06, 2020
A section of ruling Awami League leaders and activists has allegedly got into misappropriation of rice meant for distributing among the poor across the country...
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Confiscate looters’ property to save people: citizens
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:48am on April 04, 2020
Fifty-five concerned citizens, socio-cultural and human rights activists on Friday urged the government to take urgent steps to save lives of crores of poor and...
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Poor throng city streets for relief
Rashad Ahamad | Updated at 12:40am on April 04, 2020
People continued to gather at most road intersections in the city for food as families who live from day to day have been out of...
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Government relief support for the poor inadequate: experts
Ershad Kamol | Updated at 11:01pm on April 02, 2020
The economists and development experts observed that the government incentives for keeping the poor confined to their homes during the unofficial lockdown was very inadequate...
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City corporations do little for poor to fight coronavirus
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:38pm on April 01, 2020
Both city corporations in the capital are doing very little for the people who live hand to mouth to help them survive during the coronavirus...
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Government relief support for the poor inadequate: experts
Ershad Kamol | Updated at 10:55pm on April 01, 2020
The economists and development experts observed that the government incentives for keeping the poor confined to their homes during the unofficial lockdown was very inadequate...
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Effective, early relief plans needed for the poor
| Updated at 12:00am on March 25, 2020
IT IS worrying that the government has not yet taken any plans when many governments around the world have taken up elaborate relief programmes for...
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2,153 wealthier than 4.6b of world’s poorest
Jessica Corbett | Updated at 12:00am on January 23, 2020
‘ECONOMIC inequality is out of control.’ That is the opening line of Time to Care: Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work and the Global Inequality Crisis,...
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Poor people think budget announcement leads to price hike of goods: survey
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:02am on June 26, 2019
Two-thirds of people belonging to the poor section of society think that prices of essential commodities rise as an impact of announcement of the national...